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A small CineFocus crew spent several days in April with folk-legend and social/artistic visionary Buffy Sainte-Marie at her Hawaii farm.

“Buffy’s story is so fascinating”, exclaimed director Joan Prowse. “We are so excited about telling the world this story, especially with the new Hawaii segments. The experience was nothing like the tourist brochures.”

CineFocus in co-production with Paquin entertainment has been documenting Sainte-Marie’s life and work for the past two years, and have interviewed other cultural icons like Joni Mitchell, Robbie Robertson and Taj Mahal in support of the new film.

Sainte-Marie lives in one the most isolated parts of the world, a place where she recycles her creative energy and lives a rural, contemplative life full of hard physical work on her farm. It is also a place where she can focus her creative energy. Currently she directs her Cradleboard teaching project, writes her music and creates her signature digital art from this location.

The new documentary, Buffy Sainte-Marie: A Multimedia Life for CHUM APTN, SCN and Knowledge Network is set for release this coming fall.

CineFocus Canada has announced the season two premiere of their show Green Heroes™ on TVO Tuesday, June 11. Tonight, Green Heroes™ will kick off Season 2 with the full season line-up to come throughout the months of June and July, starting with “Biting in